Example sentences of "[to-vb] themselves from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Croatia and Slovenia proceeded during October with steps to dissociate themselves from federal Yugoslav arrangements , refusing to extend beyond Oct. 7 the three-month moratoriums on implementing their independence declarations to which both had agreed at the Brioni talks in July [ see p. 38374 ] . |
| 2 | It must not be supposed , therefore , that the desire of Protestants to dissociate themselves from Catholic Christianity automatically created a disposition in favor of free thought . |
| 3 | While revenue contributions inevitably increased burdens upon ratepayers , and asset sales produced a ‘ once only ’ financial benefit ( as well as being politically unpalatable to many , notably Labour-controlled , authorities ) this was the perhaps inevitable response of local authorities seeking to free themselves from centrally-imposed borrowing restrictions ( as well as the high cost of borrowing after the mid-1970s ) . |
| 4 | For it was the people of the three original founding cantons , Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden , who took the first steps to free themselves from external domination and start what was to become an independent confederation of communities , unified in a unique fashion , which in their early years were mostly called simply the Confederates but later became known as Schweizer after the name of one of the original component areas , Schwyz . |
| 5 | These were the people who used that experience to free themselves from intellectual slavery to any party , but who did not lose the innocence of faith in the human capacity to change the world for the better . |
| 6 | And it was the conceptual element of Cubism that enabled the painters at various times to detach themselves from visual appearances without losing touch with the material world around them . |
| 7 | They are quite adaptable to different illumination levels , however , and shortly after introduction to the aquarium may undergo colour changes ; these colour changes represent either the production or the loss of pigments which the corals produce to protect themselves from excess ultraviolet light . |
| 8 | These are patients cut off from their capacity to feel , presumably to protect themselves from emotional pain . |
| 9 | It was often assumed that the ‘ natives ’ were unable to protect themselves from dangerous animals , thus justifying the intervention of the white man with his rifle . |
| 10 | Other republics which , like Kirgizstan , want to push ahead with economic reform , will leave the rouble system to insulate themselves from Russian inflation . |
| 11 | If more firms can overcome the internal obstacles to resemble the Japanese automobile producers , the world economy will become increasingly dominated by oligopolies with growing abilities to divorce themselves from local conditions and to create new types of enclaves within host states . |
| 12 | More specifically , on the issue of cultural hierarchies and class relations the Situationists tried to distance themselves from bourgeois notions of progress and their equivalence in the neo-avant-garde of the post-war period . |
| 13 | Although some lesbians exploited the opportunity to distance themselves from dirty , dangerous male sexuality , a vastly disproportionate number devoted themselves to AIDS work . |
| 14 | It was the 1960s before the bishops began to distance themselves from direct relationships with the government of the day . |
| 15 | The Labour Party 's environment spokesman , Dr David Clark , described the government 's decision as ‘ a squalid attempt to save themselves from electoral embarrassment ’ . |
| 16 | As his army approached close to the walls of Toulouse itself the townspeople seized the opportunity to emancipate themselves from comital authority . |
| 17 | His performances on video and in the flesh at seminars are electrifying as he paces around , shirtsleeved and sweating , exhorting his audience to liberate themselves from old ways of thinking . |
| 18 | Are we truly prepared to offer no model of co-operating nations sinking their differences to achieve greater security , or are we prepared to live with a Europe that is increasingly fragmented , where nations ' first demand on sovereignty is to equip themselves with weapons to tackle or to defend themselves from new nations on their own borders that have the same heightened state of frenzy and determination to do the same ? |
| 19 | As exchanges assume a more formal role , and seek new means to distinguish themselves from off-exchange business , they increasingly have to take note of a wider spectrum of interests , including off-exchange traders , customers , financiers , and the public interest itself . |